The Blue Jackets have reached an agreement with the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Wings, who will serve as their ECHL affiliate for the 2014-15 season.

• The NHL’s weighted lottery will change a bit next year and even more in 2016, the league said, in order to “more appropriately reflect the current state of competitive balance.”

The 14 teams that fail to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs will be in the mix for the No. 1 draft pick.

• San Jose Sharks forward Raffi Torres, a former Blue Jacket, will miss the start of the upcoming season after undergoing surgery for an infection in his previously surgically repaired right knee.

• A settlement has been reached in Steve Moore’s lawsuit against NHL forward Todd Bertuzzi more than 10 years after Bertuzzi’s bloody, on-ice attack ended Moore’s career.

On March 8, 2004, Bertuzzi, then playing for the Vancouver Canucks, hit Moore from behind. The Colorado Avalanche rookie crashed face first to the ice, leaving him with a concussion and fractured vertebrae.

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